SO
Eamon McCann concedes that the Socialist Environment
Alliance is NOT a republican organisation (April
16).

Where
stand now those Super Duper Dissident Republicans
who scurried off to Derry during the last election
to canvas for this non-republican organisation?
- S ONEILL, Ballymurphy

Dolours
Price  11 May 2004

Modesty
does not allow me to assume that S. O'Neill, Ballymurphy,
(Irish News) Letters page May 6th, is referring
to myself specifically when he speaks of "Super
Duper Republicans".

I
am a Republican. Born and bred as were my mother and
father before me and theirs before them.

I
did drive to Derry to support Eamon McCann in his
recent election campaign. I have known Eamon since
I was a sixteen year old girl being beaten into the
Burntollet River on student marches. I know him always
to have been a socialist, an internationalist, and
his dedication to his political beliefs has never
wavered. He has known me to have always been a Republican,
which I remind S. O'Neill encompasses socialism. Eamon
McCann and myself differ in opinion on many issues.
The relevance of the border, and the usefulness of
armed struggle are but two; but we can debate our
differences and mutually respect our varied political
positions. We have much in common politically.

Eamon
in my long friendship with him has never called himself
a Republican unlike those who have administered British
Rule in the six counties and are now scurrying about
begging for the re-establishment of Stormont and their
jobs as British Ministers. Brendan O'Boyle, a relation
of my mothers, died in 1955 while attempting to blow
Stormont up!

I
have no time for Stormont. I have no time for the
Good Friday Agreement. I have no time for people who
constantly change their position, cement hard gathered
weapons into the ground, abduct people and put them
down bogs, beat those who do not agree with their
rules, have a finger in every financial pie going
and seem to have done very nicely for themselves in
their day to day lives. They are not Republicans,
they are Stalinists. They have turned a once noble
Army into an armed militia whose only role is to strong
arm any opposition to their insatiable political greed
and opportunism.

S.
O'Neill is a typical product of the "truce-aleer"
period, the "super trooper" being controlled
by an autocratic politically defunct leadership bereft
of any "solution" other than that dictated
by handlers and the British/Free State coalition.

Give
me an honest Socialist any day before a lying treacherous
so-called Republican.

All
censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging
current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress
is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and
executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently
the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. - George Bernard Shaw